msgchi

Creating a translation catalog for chinese locales.

Description

The input file is a template POT file, or a translated PO file for another chinese language. Dictionaries are UTF-8 coded text files with the format in each line: Source Words|Translated Words

Source Words in lower case; Source Words with pre/surfix [-] or ["] for internal use. (Excluded single word: be, being, been, am, are, is, was, were; have, having, has, had)

Install

make
make install

Usage

msgchi -l eng2cmn package.pot -F -o cmn_TW.po
msgchi -l cmn2yue cmn_TW.po -o yue_HK.po

License

• The script files are released under GPLv3.
• The dictionary files are released under Public Domain.

Program Reference

• stcc by Ling Li, Yuan-Chen Cheng
• webpot by Ping Yeh
• msghack by Trond Eivind Glomsrød
• tw2hk.pl by Abel Cheung
• opencc by Carbo Kuo

Dictionary Reference

• eng2cmn
  • CPATCH http://glossary.pank.org/
  • CMEX 「兩岸資訊及通信術語對照表」
  • 英中繁簡編程術語對照 http://jjhou.boolan.com/terms.htm
  • Translation Project http://translationproject.org/
• cmn2yue
  • 曾焯文《粵辭正典─健康篇》
  • 邵慧君、甘于恩《粵語詞彙講義》
  • 陳雄根、張錦少《粵語詞匯溯源》
  • 現代標準漢語與粵語對照資料庫 https://apps.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/hanyu/
• cmn2nan
  • 教育部臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 https://twblg.dict.edu.tw/holodict_new/
  • 潘科元台語文理想國 https://blog.xuite.net/khoguan/blog
  • 愛台語 https://itaigi.tw/
  • 陳世明、陳文彥《臺語漢字學》
• cmn2hak
  • 客家委員會客語辭彙 https://cloud.hakka.gov.tw/details?p=126632

Author

趙惟倫(Wei-Lun Chao) bluebat@member.fsf.org